Nell Tharpe, MS, CNM, CRNFA, FASCCP - Midwife Publications - The Midwifery Institute at Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nell Tharpe has been a community midwife for 17 years in Coastal Maine. Ms. Tharpe's love of midwifery grew out of a desire to provide continuity of care to women in her own community. As she practiced in this rural setting she realized how isolated midwifery practice could be, and how limited ready resources were when trying to plan continued care for the women who came to her.
"I am committed to fostering midwifery for midwives of all backgrounds. We can all learn from each other. Let's join hands to make midwifery strong and to ensure best care for women, mothers, and babies wherever we practice. Blessings on the Work!"
Cindy Farley, CNM, PhD, FACNM - Faculty, Midwifery Institute at Philadelphia University, Clinical Midwife, Greater Cincinnati Nurse-Midwives
Cindy L. Farley received her Bachelor's of Science in Nursing from The Ohio State University in 1978, her Master's in Nursing in the nurse-midwifery program from Emory University in 1981, and her Doctor of Philosophy from The Ohio State University in 1999. She has been active in clinical practice for over 27 years. She is currently working part-time in a large full scope midwifery practice at the University Hospital of Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to this, she was director and clinical midwife of Greene Midwifery Care, a full-scope nurse-midwifery practice, providing labor and birth care to women and their families at Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia, Ohio. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings, including a free standing birth center and hospitals in rural, urban and suburban areas.
Dr. Farley has been involved in midwifery education for over 18 years. She currently teaches the critical inquiry course series and an introduction to teaching methods at The Midwifery Institute of Philadelphia University. Prior to this, she taught the antepartum course series for the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing for 8 years. She incorporates service-learning class research projects into her courses to combine academic objectives with real world work products.
Her class 10 students contributed to the review and updating of the evidence base in selected clinical practice guidelines in this edition of the book and in doing so, met course objectives, polished their critical thinking and writing skills and have authentic experience in publication and developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
Dr. Farley served as a guest “profesora de parteras” to the traditional midwives of the rural, mountainous area near Lake Yojoa in Honduras, Central America and to Antigua, Guatemala. Classes were developed and offered in affiliation with the NGO humanitarian organization, Program for Rural Reconstruction (PRR). PRR practices integrated development within four areas - education, organization, health, and economic improvement. The goal is to help improve the quality of the people’s lives in such a way that the villagers will acquire the ability to continue the process, allowing them to move from being recipients of aid to leaders in their own development process. It was with this goal in mind that Dr. Farley provided education to the rural traditional midwives and women of the area. Educational workshops were developed in response to a perceived need on the part of the Honduran and Guatemalan midwives themselves for formal training to improve their skills and knowledge.
